Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1887-08-24
DAILY INDEPENDENT.
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST "a. 1887.
sALMAGuNDI.


Twenty-one thousand dollars have
lain unclaimed in a Hartford savings
bank for twenty years.
diamond estimated to be worth
from $1,000 to 81, 500 was found lately
neal. Gainesville, Ga.
Col. j. B. Moore, of Ruby Valley, is
in town to-day. He will ship three car
loads of beef cattle to San Francisco
from Halleck to-day.
Mrs. Mnckay hos almost been persua-
ded by Lady Burdett- Coutts to join the
latter in great philanthropic scheme
to assist London's starving poor.
Attorney j. L. Wines, of Eureka, will
go to Ogden tonight to meet his son
Melvin who will return from Butte City
to-day en- route to Ann Arbor, Michi-
gan.
Reno Journal:-Senator Voorhees, ex-
presses his satisfaction with the progress
which the Administration has made in
removing Republicans from Office in In
diana.
The largest man in the world is Henry
A. Cooper, of Lockport, N. Y, who is s
feet inches in height and weighs $50
pounds. His hand is Is inches and his
foot II inches long.
Eureka SentineI:-J. l.. Wines Esq.
LEFT for Elko yesterday to apply to the
Court there for writ of habeas corpus
for the release on bail of Griffith, the
man who killed Kappeler,. at Carlin q
few weeks ago.
big scheme is on foot in the East,
by which it is proposed to consolidate
all the distilleries OF the country, making
combination more powerful than the
Standard Oil Company, and having a
capital stock of $4O,900,00O.
Judge A. L. Fitzgerald left for Win
nemucca yesterday, Gays the Eureka
Sentinel, to hold court there. AS IN
incident of the trip he will probably go
to Elko, to hear the petition of Griffith,
the slayer of Kappeler, to be admitted
to bail, and will return to Eureka on
Saturday next.
Having located in Elko am pre-
pared to fill orders for Painting, Grain
ing aud Paper Hanging. Ceiling Deco
rations specially. All work first
class Leave orders at Brown & Hos
kin's shop.
G. T. HARVEY.
Chicago Tribun e:-"See the capitol
lists riding along in their fine carriages"
yelled specialist speaker at q meeting
in Chicago suburb the other evening.
"Where,d ask you, are our horses and
clrriages?" ''S'loonkeeper's drivin'
mine around" responded red-nosed
reformer of society, with deep detection,
and the orator changed the subject.
The Washington bellies have intro
d iced the cane as the latest fashion
able fad A week ago Il young damsel of
Washington society returned from Eng
land carrying this appendase. A nice
little stick, with shepherds crook of
hammered silver. "A regular little 30
Peep affair. Sometimes she swung it,
and sometimes she gave smart rap
with it upon the pavement.
Gazette Hon. w. III. Havenor, who
So successfully represented Nevada at
the New Orleans Exposition, is reported
as being willing to make mineral dis.
play at the State Fair. Should Mr..
Havenor interest himself in this direc.
ton, there is no man in tho State able
10 make better display than he. His
knowledge of the various minerals and
where they are to be found would en-
able him to make collection in short
time. Should he undertake the work it
will be well done, and there would not
be the beggarIy exhibit Of Nevada's
leading wealth and industry that has
been in years gone by.